Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:39:48 +1000 | From | Nathan Hand <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:34:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > devfs is just another way of mapping filenames to device drivers. Could > > not the driver you list somehow tap into the devfs mechanism? The old way > > with numbers will be limited in the long run. > > > > That's just silly. The devfs idea is that policy goes into the kernel > -- that's backwards. Policy is one of the thing that you want to keep > miles away.
If devfs is so bad, could we have reasons why. Policy isn't a good reason (the policy's already in Documentation/devices.txt).
If you're claiming names->devices are policy, but numbers->devices are not, then I'm confused and bewildered.
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